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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Comparative Musicology. Lachmann was also forced to leave Germany in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded … life-achievements: a woman and a scientist in a patriarchal society in the Middle East, an intellectual interfacing … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… production, but equally by the processes through which society marks them. [8] The general idea is that a … affiliations today (including my right to obtain a second German passport and travel freely between Israel and … which was supported by a doctoral studentship of the German National Academic Foundation and the Mildred Loss …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… emerged during the tenth century in present day southern Germany and northern France. However, it also acquired two … of many types of piyyutim , yet they are rare in German literature (Fleischer 2007, 470; Goldschmidt 1965, 9; … Yudisher shtam enjoyed immense popularity in Ashkenazi society, as is evidenced by the relatively large number of …
Felix Mendelssohn - Gustav Mahler: Two Borderline Cases of German-Jewish Assimilation
… This essay intends to examine two individual cases of the German-Jewish symbiosis, two borderline cases of attempted … both men attempted integration, through assimilation, with German culture, not the German nation, for Mendelssohn was … ethnically and religiously quite separate from a society that itself was many faceted in its religious …
Bernardo Feuer
… 1959 Feuer also worked with the Sephardic Jewish and the German Jewish (Bnei Israel) community in Chile, and promoted … provinces. He was an ad honorem advisor to the Hazzanim Society of Argentina and enjoyed respect and recognition …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… catalogue. The persistence of our poem in the heart of the German soil and its presence further East, in Poland, is … documented in 1724 and 1733) found in South and West Germany, West of the Rhine river (See image no. 1) and in … in Hebraic Bookland . Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1920, pp. 97-101. Includes the …
Yonatan Malin
… structure and meaning a wide variety of genres including German Lieder, Klezmer, and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was published in 2010 by Oxford University … and he has presented papers at national meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the Society for …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Different scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a possible source of inspiration: … some of them borrowed from the surrounding non-Jewish society. [29] Ashkenazi Hypothesis Also Ashkenazi melodies …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… and there he floats. This specific wording appeared also in German versions of the song (for a detailed discussion of the German variants see Bohlman and Holtzafpel 2001, no. 10, pp. … of Yiddish Folksong . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1963. Sharvit, Shimon. “The Oriental Version of ‘E …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… h a vesim h a.” In this last setting it appeared in the German-Jewish journal Ost und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and … suggest that both stem from the collection of Leo Winz, the German publisher of Kisselgof's collection as well as the … in the way Purim is conceived by the secular Israeli Jewish society, from a religious festival to a children's festival …
Forshpil (LKT)
… a great celebration. After this came the row from the youth society, the closest friends of the groom, and they would … began on the Sabbath preceding the wedding... Among the German Jews this celebration was called Spinholz, a medieval German term, the meaning of which cannot be ascertained. The …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… , the Russian composer associated with Saint Petersburg’s Society for Jewish Folk Music . The soprano voice follows a … socialist and anarchist sentiments, along with occasional German cabaret and a few originals. He has been vocal of the …


